How Enslavement was Justified in America During 1715-1815

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This podcast is primarily focused on discussing a few common arguments that were used to justify enslavement in the United States, focusing on the Enlightenment and Post Enlightenment period (1715-1815)

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  1. 10/10/2020

    Conclusion: How justifications for enslavement can be paralleled to those of today’s injustices

    Thank you for listening to my podcast! Here is my bibliography: Bly, Nellie. Ten Days in a Mad-House. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.  Doll, E. A. “Idiot, Imbecile, and Moron.” Journal of Applied Psychology 20, no. 4 (August 1936): 427–437. National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Patients in Mental Institutions. U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068580169. Rosvold, H. E. and Mortimer Mishkin. 1950. "Evaluation of the Effects of Prefrontal Lobotomy on Intelligence." Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne De Psychologie 4 (3) (09): 122-126. doi:http://proxy.geneseo.edu:2108/10.1037/h0083524. https://proxy.geneseo.edu/login?url=https://proxy.geneseo.edu:5742/docview/614253445?accountid=11072.

    18 min

  2. 10/10/2020

    “Slavery would be too difficult to abolish due to its necessity to the country and its economy

    Thank you for listening to my podcast! Here is my bibliography: Jefferson, Thomas. Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t84j0wc2d.  Jefferson, Thomas. “The Complete Memoirs, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.” Edited by David Widger. The Project Gutenberg, May 17, 2009. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28860/28860-h/28860-h.htm To Jefferson, it was anti-democratic and contrary to the principles of the American Revolution for the federal government to enact abolition or for only a few planters to free their slaves. Locke, John. “Second Treatise of Government by John Locke.” The Project Gutenberg eBook of Second Treatise Of Government By John Locke. Accessed March 3, 2020. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm. Locke, John. “Two Treatises of Government by John Locke.” The Project Gutenberg eBook of Two Treatises Of Government By John Locke. Accessed March 3, 2020. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/old/trgov10h.htm

    28 min

  3. 10/09/2020

    “Enslavement is ‘natural’”

    Thank you for listening to this episode of my podcast! Here is the bibliography: Aristotle. Aristotle: Politics. Translated by CDC Reeve. Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. Huber, Pierre. The Natural History of Ants. Translated by James Rawlins Johnson. Google Books. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. https://books.google.com/books?id=AJM-AAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s. Minella, Timothy K. 2019. “The Enslaved Ants and the Peculiar Institution: Argument by Analogy in the Slavery Question.” Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (2): 256–80. http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.geneseo.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hus&AN=135603201&site=ehost-live&scope=site.  Richard Kraut. “Are There Natural Rights in Aristotle?” The Review of metaphysics 49, no. 4 (June 1, 1996): 755–774.

    26 min

  4. 10/09/2020

    “Enslavement is good for enslaved people”

    Thank you for listening to this episode of my podcast series! Here is the bibliography: Colossians 3.” ESV Bible. Accessed October 8, 2020. https://www.esv.org/Colossians 3/. Jefferson, Thomas. 1997. Declaration of Independence. Jackson, MS: Applewood Books. Mieder, Wolfgang. “‘Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You’: Fredrick Douglass’s Proverbial Struggle for Civil Rights: Document View.” The Journal of American folklore 114, no. 453 (2001) “Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Religion in Eighteenth-Century America.” Religion in Eighteenth-Century America - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic | Exhibitions (Library of Congress), June 4, 1998. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html.  Tise, Larry Edward (1974). "The "Positive Good" Thesis and Proslavery Arguments in Britain and America, 1701—1861". Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America  (Thesis) (1987 ed.). Athens, Georgia : University Press of Georgia. p. 97. I

    25 min

  5. 10/09/2020

    Introduction to this Podcast

    This is a simple introduction to the topic at hand and has been designed to peak the interest of any listeners out there who want to know more about enslavement history in America. Typically, there will be a bibliography in the description of every episode. This episode did not have much. I hope you enjoy this episode and stick around to listen to the next one! “Ethics - Slavery: Attempts to Justify Slavery,” BBC (BBC, 2014), http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/slavery/ethics/justifications.shtml

    13 min
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This podcast is primarily focused on discussing a few common arguments that were used to justify enslavement in the United States, focusing on the Enlightenment and Post Enlightenment period (1715-1815)

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